author
W. C. Morrow
1854–1923
Best remembered today for eerie, inventive short fiction, this Alabama-born writer built a reputation on stories of horror and suspense that still feel sharp and unsettling. His work moves easily from the macabre to social criticism, giving his fiction an energy that has lasted well beyond his era.
5 Audiobooks
Bohemian Paris of To-day Second Edition
by W. C. Morrow, Edward Cucuel
A Man: His Mark. A Romance Second Edition
by W. C. Morrow
The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
by W. C. Morrow
The Inmate Of The Dungeon 1894
by W. C. Morrow
Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony
by W. C. Morrow
About the author
Born in Selma, Alabama, in 1854, W. C. Morrow—William Chambers Morrow—became an American novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. He later made his career in California, where he worked in journalism as well as fiction, and he died in 1923.
He is now known mainly for tales of horror and suspense, especially the often-anthologized "His Unconquerable Enemy." Readers also return to collections such as The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People, where his stories mix psychological tension, grim irony, and a taste for the bizarre.
Morrow's writing also reached beyond pure sensation. His early novel Blood-Money drew on the Mussel Slough conflict in California and showed his interest in power, injustice, and human cruelty—concerns that also give depth to his darker short fiction.